Trump’s Reported Obamacare Expansion Is Bad Policy And Worse Politics
By: Christopher Jacobs
November 24, 2025Trump may think this flip-flop will help keep Republicans in control of the House of Representatives, but it’s much more likely to hurt than help.Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. After having faced down a Democrat-imposed government shutdown, the White House is reportedly preparing to give Democrats just about everything they wanted from the shutdown in the first place.
The details from the press reports are spotty, and the White House claimed that “any reporting about the administration’s health care positions is mere speculation.” Regardless, if this trial balloon comes to fruition, conservatives will live to regret it — as will Donald Trump.
Bad PolicyThe stories on Sunday, first reported by MSNBC and followed up by subsequent articles, suggest that the administration will support a two-year extension of the enhanced Obamacare subsidies, first enacted under the Biden administration and scheduled to expire on Dec. 31. (If the enhanced subsidies lapse, the original Obamacare premium subsidies enacted in 2010 will remain.)
The plan will reportedly include some concessions to the significant concerns over fraud caused by the enhanced subsidies. It will propose capping subsidy eligibility at 700 percent of the poverty line and requiring some (unspecified) minimum premium amount, to address concerns that “free” premiums are prompting fraudulent enrollment.
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https://thefederalist.com/2025/11/24/trumps-reported-obamacare-expansion-is-bad-policy-and-worse-politics/
